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NJIT Heads to Baltimore for Three-Game Series at UMBC

5/1/2025 3:32:00 PM

Baltimore, Md. – The NJIT baseball team heads back on the road for another conference series this weekend, traveling down to Baltimore for a three-game set at UMBC. The series is set to get underway with a doubleheader on Friday beginning at 3 p.m., followed by the finale on Saturday at 2 p.m. All three games will be streamed live on AmericaEast.TV.

LAST TIME OUT
Landon Parker collected his first three collegiate hits and knocked in two runs to pace NJIT in a 7-6 midweek victory over FDU on Wednesday night at Yogi Berra Stadium. After falling behind 4-0 in the early going, the Highlanders used a six-run fourth inning to take the lead for good. After the Knights threatened late in a one-run game, Jack Sylvia came on to escape a bases-loaded jam en route to his first career save.

HIGHLANDER HIGHLIGHTS
  • Ray Ortiz sits just one home run shy of setting a new NJIT career record for round-trippers. He enters the weekend with 39 career home runs, tying him with Luke Longo who set the record last season.
  • Ortiz also enters the weekend with 199 career base hits, one away from becoming the eighth Highlander to eclipse 200 hits for a career.
  • Cole Campbell enters the weekend riding a 10-game hitting streak in which he is hitting .477 (21-for-44).
  • Campbell is batting a team-best .355 in America East play this season.
  • NJIT has five qualified hitters with an average north of .300 in conference play this season (Campbell, Ortiz, Doyle, Sallie, Wolf).
  • Mason Wolf has also found his swing over the last 10 games, hitting .429 (15-for-35) with two home runs and a team-best 13 RBI's over that span.
  • Wolf's stretch has boosted his batting average on the season up to .352 which leads the team.
  • Since joining the weekend rotation on a permanent basis, Nate DeSchryver owns a 2.14 ERA and has struck out 28 batters in 21 innings pitched.
  • Ortiz launched three home runs on April 18 at Binghamton, and in doing so became the first Highlander in program history to record three separate 10+ home run seasons.
  • Ortiz has been an offensive force for NJIT this season, leading the team in almost all the major offensive categories. He enters the weekend leading the team in home runs (13), RBI (36), doubles (15), hits (55), runs scored (46), total bases (113), slugging percentage (.673) and OPS (1.085).
  • Ortiz leads the America East in home runs, doubles and runs scored while sitting in second in slugging percentage, hits and OPS.
  • Ortiz has received numerous national honors this season. He was named to the Brooks Wallace Award Watch List for the top shortstop in the nation. Ortiz also landed D1Baseball.com's Week Six Top 50 Shortstops in the nation, coming in at No. 47 on the list.
  • Nate DeSchryver was named America East Pitcher of the Week on April 7 after a stellar outing against UAlbany, striking out 11 and allowing just one hit over five shutout innings.
  • DeSchryver became the third Highlander hurler to be named America East Pitcher of the Week this season, joining MT Morrissey and Brandon Peterson.
  • Peterson was named America East Pitcher of the Week on March 31. He fired 6.2 innings while allowing just one hit and no runs in the win over Maine last Sunday.
  • Morrissey was named America East Pitcher of the Week on March 4 after a stellar outing against Iona, pitching seven innings and striking out seven while allowing just one run.
  • Morrissey struck out a career-high nine batters on March 29 against Maine.
  • Cole Campbell was also recognized by D1Baseball.com before the season as one of the top 50 catchers in the country.
  • Holden deJong was named by Perfect Game as the America East Preseason Pitcher of the Year, as well as a Top 250 College Prospect by D1Baseball.com.
  • Andrew Eppinger collected his first multi-home run game of his career on March 28 against Maine. The graduate student entered the game with just one home run in his career.
  • NJIT has scored in the first inning 25 times, putting up a total of 49 runs in the opening frame this season.
  • The Highlanders are 16-5 this season when scoring 6+ runs.
  • NJIT is 15-1 this season when leading after six innings.
  • The Highlanders recently concluded a stretch of playing 16 out of 17 games at home. NJIT will now play 14 of its final 18 regular season games on the road, the exact same stretch the Highlanders played to open the season.
  • The Highlanders were picked to finish tied for third in the America East preseason poll. NJIT was tied with Maine with 21 points apiece, behind second-place selection Binghamton and first-place pick Bryant.
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